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JamonBull

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Dec 14, 2009
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Australia
Hi everyone,

I'm just after some quick advice really. I'm selling my 1TB Time Capsule on eBay and want to format it. I understand there's four different options for erasing the data on the disk...

1) Quick erase (non-secure)
2) Zero out data
3) 7 pass erase
4) 35 pass erase

What option do you recommend I use for formatting? Obviously security is of some concern here so I want to make sure the data is properly gone, but by the same token, the 35 pass erase takes days to do haha.
 
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